Clip-n-Seals are heading to Antarctica, as part of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), to be used in a custom Teflon irradiation chamber. Clip-n-Seal, in partnership with Welch Fluorocarbon, developed a custom, extruded Clip-n-Seal for BAS. BAS chose Clip-n-Seal because it maintains an air- and watertight seal in extreme temperatures. We call the BAS custom version the Cold Mondo.

That time that I spilled a giant bag of peas across the kitchen floor and decided that we needed a Clip-n-Seal for the freezer, I had no idea that 3 years later, Clip-n-Seals would be sailing to the Antarctic. The zipper-style closures used in large freezer bags, like those from Costco, often fail. Many of our customers use Clip-n-Seals in the freezer to seal their food. The custom Cold Mondo was extruded with a tighter clamp to ensure a seal at temperatures that dip below -20 °C. It's similar to the custom version we created for Tatura Diary in Australia.

BAS is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council. Based in Cambridge UK, it has, for almost 60 years, undertaken the majority of Britain's scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent. It now shares that continent with scientists from around thirty countries.